Although it might seem rather obvious given their budget brand, Virgin Mobile, has started taking pre-orders at Best Buy we now know Bell is gearing up to sell the BlackBerry Classic directly as well. If you head on over to the Bell site and search for the device, you'll be taken to a 'coming soon' page, though it offers very few details and still lacks any pricing structure.

That said, if you look around a bit more, there's parts of the Bell site that show pricing will begin starting at $49.95 with a two-year contract but I'm cautious in mentioning that as earlier today it was showing several different amounts, some which were clearly errors or placeholders. It doesn't look as though they'll be doing any pre-ordering, but we'll keep an eye on it and see if that changes.

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